Israel said it killed at least five Palestinian militants in an air strike on the Syrian Golan Heights yesterday, after cross-border rocket fire

Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria have demolished a Christian monastery in al-Qaryatain town in Homs province.

Britain will reopen its embassy in Tehran during a visit to Iran by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond due to start on Sunday.

Eight Turkish soldiers have been killed in a bomb attack in the south-eastern province of Siirt, the army says.

The authorities yesterday confiscated a piece of landed property of Captain Abdul Majed, a fugitive killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur

Five children drowned in Sirajganj, Bagerhat and Rangpur districts on Sunday and the day before.

A young man was stabbed to death in Purbo Barandipara area of Jessore town early Sunday. The deceased is Hanif Mia, 25, son of Abdur

A programme marking the National Mourning Day was foiled over political enmity between the chairman of Lokhmikunda Union Parishad

In the moments before he raped the 12-year-old girl, the Islamic State fighter took the time to explain that what he was about to do was not a sin. Because the preteen girl practiced a religion other than Islam, the Quran not only gave him the right to rape her — it condoned and encouraged it, he insisted.

Kayla Mueller, who was killed in February while held hostage by Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria, was sexually abused by the group's top leader.

Israel arrested several suspects yesterday in raids linked to the deadly firebombing of a Palestinian home and placed two more alleged

Forces loyal to Yemen's exiled government recaptured a southern provincial capital from Shia rebels and their allies yesterday as they pressed an advance from second city Aden.

Once part of one of the most brutal dictator's army in the Middle East, over 100 former members of Saddam Hussein's military and intelligence officers are now part of ISIS.

Pro-government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition retook Yemen's biggest airbase from Iran-backed rebels yesterday in a significant

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and at least two dozen other troops were wounded early yesterday in a suicide attack blamed on Kurdish militants, as Ankara kept up its air campaign against the rebels' bases in northern Iraq.

The United Arab Emirates is to try 41 people for allegedly seeking to overthrow the government to set up an Islamic State group-style caliphate in the Gulf state, prosecutors said yesterday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry sought to assure Middle East allies that the Iran nuclear deal would make them safer, as he began a regional tour in the Egyptian capital yesterday.

Nearly 40 government and opposition fighters have been killed as Syrian regime forces pushed rebels back from an area bordering

Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah flew into the southern port of Aden from exile in Saudi Arabia yesterday, after pro-government forces

Kurdish rebels of the PKK should take their war with Ankara out of Iraqi Kurdistan to prevent Turkish air strikes from causing civilian